Kate DiCamillo Quotes:
Ocupation: Writer
Life: b. March 25, 1964
Birthday: March 25
I was visiting my mother in Florida when the September 11, 2001 attacks happened. I was working on The Tale of Despereaux at that point. I had already gone into writing it with a great deal of trepidation and fear, and then this God-awful thing happens and it was really hard to even get back home to Minneapolis.
source: TeachingBooks.net Interview, www.teachingbooks.net. November 12, 2005. 
topic: Mother, Home, Writing, Minneapolis, Despereaux, Already Gone, September 11 2001, Trepidation
